Nature Photographers Network
This is the preserved archive of the original Nature Photographers Network. The community continues at naturephotographers.network.

DVD Backup

Discussion

3 replies
Posted by Laurie Wendt on November 30, 2007 at 7:08 PM
I was wondering what brand of DVD's (single and Dual layer) everyone was using for archival backup of files. :smile:
Posted by Jesse Speer on November 30, 2007 at 8:05 PM
Posted by Ken Wyatt on December 1, 2007 at 2:02 AM
I suspect most of us actually use multiple hard drives, rather than DVDs or CDs. Optical media isn't considered that good an archival system. They're too easily scratched / damaged / etc. Plus, optical formats keep changing. What's to say 5 - 10 - 20 years down the road that one could still read the old formats? Having said that, disks, such as Mitsui (pointed out by Jesse) and eFilm (I believe) are considered some of the best optical media. Also, hard drives eventually fail, as well - so I replace the oldest of my three back-up drives one a year to be safe. You can probably do a search in this forum for additional discussions on image archiving techniques.

Regards, Ken
Posted by Laurie Wendt on December 1, 2007 at 7:44 PM
Thanks guys. You were very helpful.